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Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com)

Engaget reports that CBS' Star Trek: Discovery series is being renewed for a second season. The show has reportedly been enough of a success to justify a second season of episodes. From the report: The move comes as a vote of confidence for both the show and its platform, since it has recently aired the sixth of its fifteen-episode first season. Now, a second run of Discovery will air, presumably at some point toward the back-half of 2018. Discovery has certainly benefited from plenty of hype, since it's the first Trek show to air as a TV show since 2005. The pull of the Star Trek name was always going to be a draw, but it wasn't clear how much of a draw given the saga's lackluster popularity at the box office. CBS refused to offer numbers, but did boast that Discovery's debut lead to the highest number of sign-ups in the history of its All Access service.

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  1. ARRRK BLAAARKK GARRRRK! by Mats+Svensson · · Score: 5, Funny

    As overrated as it is overexposed and oversaturated.

    1. Re:ARRRK BLAAARKK GARRRRK! by dywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Trek fans wouldn't be Trek fans if they didn't complain about every new Trek show and how it's not as good as the last one.

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  2. Highest in history... Trust me. by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    CBS refused to offer numbers, but did boast that Discovery's debut lead to the highest number of sign-ups in the history of its All Access service.

    Said CBS spokesman Donald Trump.

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  3. Re:It kinda sucks. by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    that teleports the ship to any known sector, and the technology is based on a network of mushroom spores that permeates the entire universe, and they first were using a GIANT TARDIGRADE as a supercomputer to control the drive

    Dilithium crystals are no longer a rare source of plot devices in Starfleet.

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  4. Re:whatever by msauve · · Score: 3, Funny

    The name alone - STD - tells you it's something best avoided.

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